'BUT hear. If you stay, and the child be born, It will pass as your husband's with the rest, While, if we fly, the teeth of scorn Will be gleaming at us from east to west; And the child will come as a life despised; I feel an elopement is ill-advised!' 'O you realize not what it is, my dear, To a woman! Daily and hourly alarms Lest the truth should out. How can I stay here And nightly take him into my arms! Come to the child no name or fame, Let us go, and face it, and bear the shame.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT THE WILD RIDE by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY ON LYNN TERRACE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH LONDON WIND by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 99. AZ-ZABOOR by EDWIN ARNOLD |